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...enthusiasts. Few of his works had been recorded while he was alive, and they had not sold well. Rehearsal for Critics. On the same afternoon that San Franciscans were cheering the Bartók concerto, Yehudi Menuhin invited Manhattan critics to his Park Avenue apartment. Yehudi, dressed in a slack suit and bedroom slippers, wanted them to hear again a Bartók composition they had frowned on three years ago: a powerful sonata for unaccompanied violin which Bartók had written for Yehudi. Yehudi was going to play it again this week, and this time wanted the critics...
...Lewis G. Slack of 120 Waverly Street, Everett, cousin of Armstrong, added however, that the youth was given to intense periods of solitary study ever since he entered the School of Arts and Sciences last February. "He'd been going at it awfully hard lately," said Slack...
According to Slack, Armstrong would return early in the evening and study uninterruptedly until long past midnight...
...Slack also recalled that the English major was subject to severe attacks of headache, and that he was treated for this condition at Stillman Infirmary last spring...
...farewell note has yet been discovered, and Armstrong's family was at a loss to supply any immediate motive for the suicide last night. 'All I can think of is Winant's death,'murmured Slack. "This is just as inexplicable...